Grohl described the sequencing as "like a compilation tape that I would have made as a kid." Each track on the album features a different lead singer including Lemmy, Max Cavalera, King Diamond and Tom Warrior. Similar to 1995's Foo Fighters, Grohl wrote all of the music and performed most of the instrumentation. On the album, Grohl teamed up with heavy metal vocalists from 1980s and 1990s bands who influenced his musical tastes while he was growing up.
Cronos and Lemmy played bass guitar on the songs they sang, while Wino and Jack Black played guitar on the tracks on which they sang. Production and style įrom top to bottom: Kim Thayil and Matt Sweeney played additional guitar parts on the album. Cronos detailed he wrote three different versions so Grohl could choose one. Then the demo tapes were sent to the singers, each of whom was asked to come up with lyrics, record them and then title the song. Sweeney would organize the project as Grohl toured with the Foo Fighters, getting vocalists on board and organizing tracks. According to Grohl, the songs sent to Eric Wagner and King Diamond had been previously done for Ozzy Osbourne as he was contacted to write for the then-upcoming Down to Earth, but when Osbourne's label did not respond, he repurposed them for Probot. Seeing the positive response, Grohl brought Kasper and Sweeney back to do five more instrumental tracks and round out the project. And Dave's cool," detailing that Grohl's email opened with "a real fan letter" where he mentioned his longtime appreciation of Venom, and then explained about his idea of a metal album with all his metal heroes "to get something off his chest." Cronos would later explain that "I'm open for everything. Grohl feared his fame built out of being "a stupid, middle-of-the-road, alternative-rock idiot" could drive the metal singers away, but many agreed immediately. He came up with "my wish list of all of my favorite singers from this era which is '82 to '89 underground metal, and all the bands I listened to at the time: Eric Wagner from Trouble, Snake from Voivod, Cronos, Lemmy and Wino," and started contacting the musicians, some of whom were reached by Grohl's friend Matt Sweeney given the Foo Fighters had restarted their tour. Some time later, inspired by the Santana album Supernatural, Grohl decided to attempt collaborations with singers he had idolized. ĭave Grohl played the majority of instruments on the album, including all of the drum tracks. Grohl said that he did not intend to make an album out of the recordings – "I didn’t even call them songs because they were bare instrumentals with no intention of putting vocals on them and no direction as an actual song." After four days of recording, Grohl and Kasper had done seven tracks, with Grohl making some copies out of the master tape before labeling it Probot to distinguish from the Foo Fighters' work. Each instrumental would take about 45 minutes to complete.
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Grohl would play with his Gibson Explorer through a small Peavey amp as he watched TV with Kasper, and once he got a riff that interested him, he would bring Kasper along to the basement, recording a drum arrangement followed by bass and guitar. Following the tour, Grohl went to his house in Alexandria, Virginia, to record some heavier songs in his home studio Studio 606 with Adam Kasper. He mentioned the catalyst of the experience being during the first leg of the tour in support of the Foo Fighters album There Is Nothing Left to Lose, with the mellower songs making him think about the heavier bands he used to listen to. It featured one single entitled "Centuries of Sin"/"The Emerald Law".Īfter years of popularity in the alternative rock scene, Dave Grohl wanted to express the passion for heavy metal he bore since his youth. The album was released in February 2004 by Southern Lord Records. Described by Grohl as "a death metal Supernatural", the album mixes instrumentals recorded by Grohl himself with various metal singers whom the musician admired. Probot was a heavy metal side project of former Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl.
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